Jay Beale's Open Source Security

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Nessus Network Auditing

by Renaud Deraison, Haroon Meer, Roelof Temmingh, Charl Van Der Walt, Raven Alder, Jimmy Alderson, Andy Johnston, and George A Theall

Published 14 October 2004

This book focuses on installing, configuring and optimizing Nessus, which is a remote security scanner for Linux, BSD, Solaris, and other Unices. It is plug-in-based, has a GTK interface, and performs over 1200 remote security checks. It allows for reports to be generated in HTML, XML, LaTeX, and ASCII text, and suggests solutions for security problems. As with many open source programs, Nessus is incredibly popular, incredibly powerful, and incredibly under-documented. There are many Web sites (including nessus.org) where thousands of users congregate to share tips, tricks, and hints, yet no single, comprehensive resource exists. This book, written by Nessus lead developers, will document all facets of deploying Nessus on a production network.